Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the "dragon," in their eff...orts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great te...mptation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think ... I have inside me a sort of answer to the want of today: to the real, deep want of the English people, not to just what... they fancy they want. And gradually, I shall get my hold on them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotte...n.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mi...schief or merriment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain pueril...e vanity more like senility than anything.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
California is a queer place--in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely self...ish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us asi...de. Alas!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »